The Fetus as a Patient

A Contested Concept and its Normative Implications
Herausgeber: Clarke, Angus; Schmitz, Dagmar; Dondorp, Wybo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care. Accordingly, physicians tend to perceive the fetus as a patient and understand themselves as having certain professional duties towards it. However, it is far from clear what it means to speak of a patient in this connection. This volume explores the usefulness and limitations of the concept of 'fetal patient' against the background of the recent seminal developments in prenatal or fetal medicine. It does so from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. Featuring internationally recognized experts in the field, the book discusses the normative implications of the concept of 'fetal patient' from a philosophical-theoretical as well as from a legal perspective. This includes its implications for the autonomy of the pregnant woman as well as its consequences for physician-patient-interactions in prenatal medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780367591373
• ISBN-10: 0367591375
• Artikelnr.: 69892181

Autorenporträt

Dagmar Schmitz is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Theory at the Institute for History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a member of the German Commission on Genetic Testing (GEKO). In her research, she is especially interested in ethical aspects of physician-patient-interactions and the beginning of life. Angus Clarke is Clinical Professor at the Institute of Cancer and Genetics, Cardiff University, UK. He works as a clinical geneticist and teaches students of medicine and of genetic counselling. He undertakes research on the social and ethical aspects of human genetics and contributes to policy discussions on genetic services within UK and Europe. Wybo Dondorp is Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Research Schools CAPHRI and GROW, at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research interests include the ethics of reproductive medicine, genomics, and population screening. He is a member of the Health Council of the Netherlands and past coordinator of the Special Interest Group on Ethics of the International Society of Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Therapy (ISPD).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction; 1.The Fetus as a Patient - a Sustainable Approach for
Clinical Interactions in the Field of New Prenatal Medicine?; Part II: The
Fetus as a Patient: A useful concept?; 2. The Disposable and Protected
Fetus: Contradictions in Fetal Status; 3. Which Ethics for the Fetus as a
Patient?; 4.The Ethical Concept of the Fetus as a Patient: Responses to its
Critics; 5.Treating the Fetus as a Patient: Possible Implications for its
Moral Status; Part III: The Fetus as a Patient: Where does that leave the
pregnant woman?; 6. Insights from a Perspective of Cultural Anthropology: A
Discourse Analysis of Representations of (Genetic) Reproductive Medicine
and the Fetus in Popular Media; 7.The Fetus as a Patient in Professional
and Patient Discourses; 8. Means, Ends and the Fetal Patient; 9. Caring for
Pregnant Cancer Patients; Part IV: The Fetus as a Patient: Challenges for
clinical care pathways and interactions; 10. Treatments and Trials for the
Fetal Patient: Imposing the Burdens of Enthusiasm?; 11. Ethics of Involving
Pregnant Women in Fetal Therapy Trials; 12. The 'Normalization' of Prenatal
Screening: Prevention as Prenatal Beneficence?; 13. Beyond the Fetal
Patient: The Ethics of Fetal Treatment for Down Syndrome; 14. Prenatal
Therapy for Differences of Sexual Development (DSD): Fuzzy Boundaries in
the Clinical Discussion and the Ethical Debate; 15. Perinatal Palliative
Care as an Option in Prenatally Diagnosed Severe, Life-Limiting Conditions
of the Fetus; Part V: The Fetus as a Patient: Legal perspective; 16. The
Legal Status of the Fetus as a Patient in Europe